The Osceola times., 1887-06-25
NEWS IN BRIEF,
Compiled IRON varieus Sources.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
ON the 18th An order was issued b,
0enerSl Sheridan for the garrisoning oi
Fort Meyer, near Washington. The pos
viii b commanded BY Major Lewis H.
Carpenter. Of the Fifth Cavalry, who Il
stationed at Fort Supply, L 7.
ADvIoEs from Rio do Janeiro represen
Dom Pedro, Emperor Of Brazil, as suffer
ing from dangerous attack OF disbeteI
and living In q critical condition.
THB State Department has received
through the British Minister at washin e
ton, IN invitation 10 this Government I,
take part in the Centennial Internationa
Exhibition. which Is to be hold at Mel
bourne, Australia, in 1SSs and viii bs
kept open for SIX months. Ample space
will be reserved for American exhibitors
SPAIN proposes TO let all Cubsns vote
by the payment OF forty dollars each for
the privilege.
OK the 18th the one hundred and nine.
teenth anuzal commencement Of Brown
University at Providence. X l., was held.
The oegree OF Bachelor OF Arts was con-
ferred upon thirty-eight men. Degrees
were conferred as follows; Doctor Of
Divinity, Frederick @. Wright; Doctor Of
Laws, Isaac @. Wilson, of Chicago, and
James p. Boyce, OF Louisville, Ky,
OK the 18th the Princess of Wales and
her family visited tho Wild West show,
together with score Of foreign ROYALTIES,
all Of whom rode In the Dead wood coach,
the Princess being seated on the box by
the side Of Buffalo Bill, who drove the
horses sttached to the vehicle.
UNITED STATES CoSsuL.G ESERAL RAINRs
at Berlin has sent an able report to
the Government on German trade and
manufactures.
QUEEN VICTORIA Is reported TO be very
much alarmed over the alleged discovery
OF q dynamite plot TO bo carried out dur
ing her jubilee.
JAMES @. BLAINE arrived In England on
the 10th. He declined TO attend the in ubilee
banquet at Southampton.
The President has made the I Glowing
appointments' John G. Nelson, OF Min
nesota, tc be receiver Of public moneys at
Fergus Falls, MINI; James Greeley, of
Minnesota, to be register OF the land Of.
fice gt Red Wood Falls, Minn.
CR. MACKENZIE examined the German
Crown Princes throat on tho 18th. The
doctor reported that he found that the
iungus growth had not enlarged and that
there were no ugns OF congestion.
TEE social event Of the season at Otta.
wa Ont, was Lord Lansdowne's State
ball on the night Of the 18th. Six undred
proDlinent people attended, but notice.
sole feature was the conspicuous absence
Of Irish citizens.
MISS ANNIE Brooks, q handsome young
brunette, twenty.three years old, W hollves
In East Orange, N. Y, aw oke the other
morning rich. A wealthy uncle, Patrick
Brooks, died last March, leaving her seI,.
000 The young heiress has been working
in silk factory and in q drsssmaking
shop to earn her living
The returns from the local elections in
Wisconsin, which arc now all received,
show that several thousand women voted
for city, village and township officers
under the new law which enables them to
do so At any election where officers are
chosen who have any correction with the
schools.
EVENTS have recently trans pired in Mil
waukee, Wis, which promise TO clear up
the mystery surrounding the abd uction
OF Willie Dickenson, OF Com monwealth,
Wis, elk years ago. The boy, who was six
years old at the time, was kidnapped while
on his way HON, from school on the even
ing Of November I, 1851.
The President has withdrawn his as
sent TO the action OF Secretary Endicott
aud Adjntant-General Drum In the matter
OF returning captured Confederate flags
10 the Southern States, having d iscovered
that Congressional warrant was neces-
sary.
IT Is reported that Sir John Macdonald,
the Canadian Premier. has threatened to
resign II the House of Commons adopts
the resolution in favor Of total prohibi :
ton.
A STRANGELY sens ational story Is
brought to London by British OH Ger re-
turned from Russia, to the effect that the
Czar IS constantly "bi.ing drunk" fire.
quently in the most frenzied state Of Jim
jams, and that he will soon drink himself
to death, unless some high official kills
him for insults aud indignities offered
when on one of his whlrlwind sprees.
WILLIAM O'BRIES arrived on the 18th of
Queenstown, and was given an enthusi-
astic reception.
RESOLUTION OF impeachment Of State
Auditor Walker was introduced In the
Missouri House OF Representatives on
the l7th, and it was set for argument on
wednesday, the ed.
MINISTER McLANE has demanded OF the
French Government the release Of an
American citizen confined In French
lunatic asylum.
DIR. Roswell DwIGnr HIroHcocK,
president of the Union Theological Semin-
ary of New York, died at his summer res
idence at South Somerset, Mass, on the
night of the 10th, OF peritonitis.
NINE. FuRson-MADI was granted q yer.
dict for -, 199 and costs in hor suit at New
York against Charles Il. Locke, of the
-,l.
There was no defense.
JoHS p. BEyIrz. well known through
ont the country as baritone in various
opera companies died at his home in
Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 18th, of Brights
disease of the kidneys. The deceased
was in the forty-ffth year OF his age
OK the 18th Sarah Bernhardt and COM
pany, pet tiger and all, sailed for Europe
from New York.
OK the 18th Mrs. Cleveland attended the
reception and bang uet Of the Phenix So
ciety in honor Of the graduating class OF
Wells College, at Aurora, n. Y. Being an
ex-membe she waived all ceremony and
went in as lone of the girls" and had a
good time.
THE President is said TO be contemplat
iuga July .jaunt He is also said to be
formulating plan Of tariff revision 70
submit to congressional consideration.
The Marchioness Of Londonderry will
present TO Queen Victoria a casket con.
taining 10000 signatures and f3, 40 in
cash 40 a jubilee Offering from Irish
women.
On the night Of the 18th ex.Treasurer
Conrad N. Jordan was presented a,
Washington with a magnificent silver
punch bowl by the employees of the treas.
urer's office OF the Treasury Department
TIE Emperor Francis Josephis Jubilee